Obama hits the magic 50 percent
mark against Willard among likely voters in Florida, Ohio and
Pennsylvania,
with wide support for his plan to hike federal income taxes on
upper-income voters, according to a new poll.

Support for Obama’s proposal to increase taxes on the super-rich is 58
– 37 percent in Florida,
60 – 37 percent in Ohio and 62 – 34
percent in Pennsylvania.

Damn, look at those numbers.

That "Nobody
has ever won with unemployment above 48 percent" crap is just
that - crap.
Willards plan to make the super-rich even richer is failing by 21
points in Florida,
23 points in Ohaio and 28 points in Pennsylvania.

Religion Destroyed my Party A Republican looks at what went wrongLinkIf the American people poll more
like Nigerians than Canadians on questions of evolution,
scriptural inerrancy, the presence of angels and demons, and so forth,
it is due to the rise of
the religious right and the consequent normalizing of formerly
reactionary beliefs.

All around us now is a prevailing anti-intellectualism and hostility to
science.
Politicized religion is the sheet anchor of the dreary forty-year-old
culture wars.

The Constitution notwithstanding, there is now a de facto religious
test for the presidency:
Half a century after JFK, the Republican Party has reignited the kinds
of seventeenth-century
religious controversies that advanced democracies are supposed to have
outgrown.

Put another way, a sane republican can no longer win a primary.
You have to be bat-shit Bachmann crazy to have a chance in tioday's GOP.

Or is this all a trick to sacrifice Romney to pave the way for Jeb in
2016?

"I announce today my defection from the killing and terrorist regime
and I announce that I have
joined the ranks of the freedom and dignity revolution. I announce that
I am from today a soldier
in this blessed revolution," Riyad Hijab said in a written statement
read on Al Jazeera.

Analysts described Hijab's departure as a significant symbolic blow for
al-Assad's government
but noted that the former prime minister had been on the job for only a
few months.

So why does Bashar continue to put chips in a pot where he's drawing
dead?

It seems his choices are to stick around a few more weeks and kill a
few more
hundreds or thousands of innocent people only ro get slaughtered
himself...

OR

he could take his billions and flee to a continuing lifetime of luxury
- but they tend to stay.

Why?

Gadaffy and Saddam and Russert are in Hell playing Gin, but they need
one more player.

The Jenna Jameson loves Willard story was written by a lazy editor who
swiped the Hedgehog's
quote from a previous item. Unfortunately, the lazy editor also
took Ron's quote out of context.

From the original story:

Mitt Romney had better ditch that trip to Poland and head back to the
United States posthaste to
shore up his teetering adult film star base. He just lost Ron Jeremy's
endorsement, and with it the
support of millions of Americans who turn to the porn legend for
political guidance.

Jeremy told the Boston Herald this week that he will be casting his
vote Obama.

Despite his decision to back Obama, Jeremy said nice things about
Romney, calling him a "good man."

Washington
Press? Cabin boys...LinkThe
weather here in Washington this week was hot and humid. That's on
background, of course.
Do not quote me. You can use the information only if you attribute to
"a beltway source who could
not be named because he is not authorised to speak about meteorology".

Here's what you can quote me on: such ridiculous, pusillanimous,
deceitful attributions are a standard tool
of the Washington press corps, which as a group is too caught up in its
own self-importance and petty
competition to understand it has become the cabin boy of the political
class. In the name of supposedly
informing the audience, Washington reporters are co-conspirators in an
ongoing fraud.

These are not whistleblowers being protected, or even insiders going
out on a limb. The epidemic of blind
quotes [when interviewees don't want to say anything on the record] is
a standard way of giving a platform
to officials speaking in an official capacity, yet with zero
accountability. The practice is also supremely
manipulative, giving the most banal information the allure of forbidden
fruit.

At its worst, the game can allow Cheney to leak phony intelligence to
the New York Times and later
refer back to the leak as independent journalistic confirmation,
leading to invasion and hundreds of
thousands of deaths and a trillion dollars in squandered treasure.

On the plus side, the Times scooped everyone.

If you saw Jon Stewart last night, he quoted Judith Miller, of all the
people in the world,
saying "these
leaks are damaging to America."

Have they no sense of irony?

Why not get a different idiot, like John Fund, to claim leaks are bad?

No
Palin at Nazi-Con 2012? Bagger Queen is conspicuously absent from
a list of featured GOP convention speakers

"Young boys seem to like
me..."

LinkThis
morning brings another wave of Fascist convention speaker announcements
– and still no mention
of a few of the party’s biggest names. If there’s a true odd one
out here, it may just be Sarah Palin.

She won’t be delivering the keynote nor is she on Romney’s V.P.
short-list, so there’s no obvious reason
to hold back on announcing it now if Republicans plan to include her in
their primetime lineup.

Asked about the Palin issue last night, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
(R-Fabulous) told Greta Van Sustern
that “I think a lot of her and hope she does speak,” a statement that
can be taken a couple of ways.

Well sure - you can "hope" all
day that she'll speak, but if she's not scheduled...

They should get the whole f-ing gang back - Bush & Cheney and
Gramps and the bagger Queen,
unless you're hoping America will forget how you bastards bankrupted a
Clinton-surplus America.

When John McCain,
Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman join forces, you can be sure of one
thing:
It will involve state-sponsored violence. Today, they want us to arm
Syrian rebels. Though, you know,
what they really wanted to call for was actually bombing the hell out
of Syria, until there is freedom.
They’re just taking it slow.

The Senate’s three most predictable and least credible warmongering
“moderates” frequently join forces
to publish joint Op-Eds or hold press conferences and the one thing
they always, invariably want is for
the United States to have just a little bit more war than it currently
has, somewhere far away.

I have an idea: Let's not
start another war.Instead, let's get in a time
machine and go back to when Assad was just starting to attack
his innocent countrymen and tell him that anything that flies in Syria
will have a noisy landing.
Since we failed to do that. Assad has flying machine guns taking out
apartment buildings.

It's not too late to take that step now - except for those who died
since then.

The man who proudly calls himself America's Pink Panty Sheriff is the
subject of a new article
in "Rolling Stone," and it's no "puff piece."

Intended to introduce readers to "America's meanest and most corrupt
politician," the feature includes
around an interview and a tour of Pink Panty's jail, which is going
into its 20th year of operation.

Early in the piece, writer Joe Hagan described Arpaio as "an unabashed
carnival barker," saying
"his antics might be amusing if he weren't also notorious for being not
just the toughest but the
most corrupt and abusive sheriff in America."

On Friday's "Good Morning! Arizona" Hagan told Kaley O'Kelley about his
experience with Arpaio.
O'Kelley asked about what she referred to as "jabs" at the sheriff,
including descriptions of him as
a "delighted gnome" and " short and portly, with a bulb nose and
cauliflower ears."

"Do you think it's polite?" O'Kelley asked. "And I'm not asking you to
be polite, but…."

"I don't get paid to be polite," Hagan quickly responded.
"I get paid to report what I see."

Damn, old-time reporting - I thought it was dead.

Funny, you can't trust Rolling SAtone when it comes to music: (N-Sync
is the best "band" in America?)
but their political reporting is generally first-rate, unless Matt
Tiabbi is raging against Hillary Clinton.Send
e-mail to Bart

Ifthe
Humane Socity is really only giving back one percent,Ifthey are
using our love of animals to steal money from us,
I say we run the bastards out of business.

The owner of a hotel in
Britain said he replaced the room Bibles with copies of "Fifty Shades
of Grey"
to reflect the modern secular society.

Jonathan Denby, owner of the Damson Dene Hotel said he decided to
replace the Bibles with the
erotic novel because he decided the Bibles were "wholly inappropriate"
for bedrooms in a secular society.

"I was thinking of putting in Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged,'" Denby said.
"But because everybody is reading
'Fifty Shades of Grey,' we thought it would be a hospitable thing to
do, to have this available for our guests,
especially if some of them were a little bit shy about buying it
because of its reputation."

I like what Harry Reid is doing.
We are always complaining when Dems don't show any balls well that's
what he is doing now.

I couldn't believe when Jon Stewart talked about that he should be
ashamed.
I think Mitt should be ashamed, hes laughing in our face. Love you Bart
Lin

I
also like what Harry Reid is doing.
Apparently, Stephanie Miller agrees that Jon's wrong this time.
(9:45 today, Sirius radio)

1. Reid didn't say he had a "secret list of Commies," as Jon Stewart
would have you believe.
Reid said he was told by a Bain insider that Romney
didn't pay taxes for ten years.IF that story
is true, should Reid help Romney and keep quiet about his crimes?2. Tactically, it's a great move. Every day the GOP
spends screaming "dirty liar"
at Reid
is a day they're NOT talking about the millions of
people who can't find a decent job.

Subject: last issue's Mystery
Celebrity LinkNobody got yesterday's Mystery Celebrity.
It was Rihanna, but you didn't
recognize her because Chris Brown
beat her so badly her face was swollen beyond all recognition.

Send
e-mail to BartSubject: OregonBart, you can probably find homes made
of brick & stone, but Portland is
earthquake country:
wood is more elastic & less crumbly in a quake. Besides, trees are
a big resource.

Let me echo the people advising you to get out of that hellhole you're
in asap! But, be advised that
Portland is very, very gray & dismal in the Winter--seriously
gloomy. On the plus side, the coast is
amazing even in dreary weather, and is close enough for frequent trips.
And, all that rainy drizzle
makes for lots of green in Spring/Summer.

Portland and the Willamette Valley grow the best berries: strawberries,
raspberries, marion berries,
logan berries, etc. Then there are the apple orchards (if you find
Gravenstein's anywhere, they make
the best pies and applesauce)...yum!

Hubby grew up there, and I lived there several years until the Winter
gray got me down.
We both miss the berries, the roses and rhododendrons and the coast,
and your quest is making us a bit homesick.
Deb in SW Montana, where the sun shines all through the dead of
Winter
(all 9 months of it--hey, it's a tradeoff and the job's here)

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